In turn, the Contax G system is recognised as a triumph it has limitations, but then again, so does every other film camera. This reflects how Contax focused on the idea of ‘ less is more‘, and Contax’s ‘less’ was always more than most other brand’s ‘most’. The lenses (except maybe the 35mm f/2 Planar and the zoom), have gained renown for being some of the sharpest ever made for 35mm. Rather than make excuses or to blame the gear however, I seek only to highlight the advantage of the system-Contax only made seven lenses because it only needed that many. Then for street photography, the last of the official Zeiss lenses for the G system-the German-made 35mm f/2 Planar or 35-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Vario Sonnar-would have been incredible. For example, I wasn’t able to shoot as many portraits than if I had access to the famed Carl Zeiss 45mm f/2 Planar and 90mm f/2.8 Sonnar (even though we had no model anyway), or to capture more of the landscape with the 21mm f/2.8 Biogon and 16mm f/8 Hologon. The disadvantage is clear while the Biogon is tremendously sharp and demonstrates excellent contrast, it pretty much limited me to a certain type of image. It was both an advantage and disadvantage that when I was testing out the Contax G2, a mechanised rangefinder with both autofocus and auto exposure first introduced in 1995, I only had access to one of the seven lenses available to the system-the Carl Zeiss 28mm f/2.8 Biogon.
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